Road Trip Wednesday #113: Pseudonyms

Welcome to our 112th Road Trip Wednesday!

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered. In the comments, you can hop from destination to destination and get everybody's unique take on the topic.

We'd love for you to participate! Just answer the prompt on your own blog and leave a link - or, if you prefer, you can include your answer in the comments.

This Week's Topic

If you couldn't use your own name, what would your pseudonym or penname be?

It'll be interesting to see some of the replys this gets, as I've seen a few stories in the past about people who've changed it to reflect or ignore Maiden name changes, or because they simply 'didn't like' their own name. To mix metaphors, it seems like a bit of a pot-luck minefield.

A particularly sad case I saw once was when a small publisher told a 14-year-old girl to use a psuedonym because her birth name, something with 'Cod' in it, would make people think of fish... way to give the girl issues. >:(

I'll check out everyone's later today; I unfortunately haven't had time any longer to go through all 30+ posts. But a comment on mine always gets you a comment in return, and if an RTW post shows up in my feed because I already follow your blog (unless you have light writing on a dark background in your blog design--can't read those).

My real name is Arabic and NO ONE pronounces it right! Even my mom can only pronounce my first name (she's not Arabic, my dad's side is from Lebanon but my mom's, well, white). My pseudonym, hands down, would be Venus something, maybe just Venus. I don't know why, but I've loved that name since I was little.